Year : 2016

Over the last few years working as an SA i’ve helped to architect solutions that use more and more cloud services and very often see the following terms used:

IaaS or Infrastrcture as a Service

PaaS or Platform as a Service

SaaS or Software as a Service

Just from looking at the names of each service types, most technical people can work out what is provided by each. But unfortunately sometimes people are unsure of the differences, paticularly where IaaS ends and PaaS starts.

Today i’ve been trying to understand why I couldn’t configure a scheduled task to run a Sitecore Powershell script. I found many useful articles which explained the configuration options for Sitecore scheduled tasks.

One notable detailed article can be found on the Sitecore Community Docs which reconfirmed my understanding of what triggers the scheduled tasks to run and how often the agent checks what tasks to be run.

I played around with these settings and still couldn’t get my scheduled task to run. I then read a post on stack overflow which gave me a good pointer.

Just reviewed and started using this module after being frustrated with abstractions and getting buried in wrappers. No matter how good you are at managing your solution, you’ll end up with a mess of wrappers to be able to unit test every facet of Sitecore.

Since i began my career as a Sitecore developer more than 9 years ago when i joined the first Sitecore UK Partner Eduserv, i always intended to create a blog about my experiences with Sitecore to help others in the community and also to document my development as a Sitecore developer. I’ve made notes, thought “I’ll write that up later” and made to many excuses about being “to busy”.